Healthy Living Week
Healthy Living Week in October was a huge success. The children, staff, parents and all the coaches and specialists who got involved had a really enjoyable week and it was a very effective learning experience for everyone.
The children had the opportunity to experience a very wide range of physical activities from Yoga and Tai Chi to Cricket and Athletics.
This year we also planned two themed days which had a great impact.
The skipping challenge experience enabled the children to develop their skills on the day but the trainer also provided the children with many challenges and skills to continue practising.
On the other themed day everyone had an introduction to circus skills from Mark. He demonstrated juggling and balancing skills and showed the children how important hand-eye, control and balance skills are if they are going to improve their physical and games skills in all areas.
Those of you who came into school during the week or have looked at the displays since will also see the tremendous impact and value of cross-curricular learning.
During the week the children’s learning was all linked to the theme and this is very powerful learning for a purpose. For example the children had the opportunity to develop their mathematical skills through counting, timing and measuring physical tasks, create healthy menus and diaries and also learned more about why and how we should keep our bodies healthy.
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